Re: rebooting

Alexandre Maret (amaret@infomaniak.ch)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:02:07 +0200


Jason Gauthier wrote:
>
> Here's a problem that I have had ever since linux 1.1.59, when i started
> two years ago. When i issue a reboot commands (ie: shutdown -rt5 now)
> the mahcine unmounts the filesystems, and then says Done. it halts there
> and never reboots. It's kind of frusterating becuasei can't reboot my
> mqchine remotely, if i need to... It's a run of the mill Intel 486/100
> with 16 meg in it... it's got a WD 540, S3 video card, SB16, and Boca 28.8
> modem. I think that's it... any help is greatly appreciated.. I've asked
> around for a long time with no luck

okay, there has been a thread about this.
This *may* be caused by the use of loadlin. If
you're using loadlin, try to boot using lilo.

alex

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